Culture through English A: Spring semester final presentations・前期末プレゼンテーション

Hello! 

How are you? Today I will introduce our final presentation assignment. Here are the topics, deadline, and guidelines.

Topics

You can choose one (1) of these topics:

• The origins of some family names in Japan
• An immigrant community in Japan (such as Koreans or Chinese born in Japan) or immigrant/unique ethnic community in another country

For the first topic choice, be sure to show:

• The ranking of the family name in Japan (for example, how common is the name) and number of people in Japan with this name
• Any changes in the kanji of the family name over time
• Any differences in kanji within the same family name (for example, the difference between 渡辺 and 渡邉) and reasons for this difference
• The different parts of Japan that the family name has migrated to and the parts of Japan that the name is most often found in 

For this second topic choice, here is a list of some unique communities and ethnic groups in some different countries. You do not have to choose one of these - you can think of an ethnic group or community of your own. But you can choose one (1) of these if you like:

• The Travelers (Ireland)
• Bretons (northwestern France)
• The Basques and their language (northwestern Spain/southwestern France)
• The Sorbs and their language (eastern Germany/southwestern Poland)
• German minorities of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan
• Hungarian minority of Romania
• The Sami people (northern Norway and Finland)
• Metis people of Quebec (Quebec, Canada)
• The Haida First Nations (British Columbia, Canada)
• Hasidic Jews of New York (U.S)
• The Lumbees (east central cost of the U.S.)
• Cajun (Acadian) people of Louisiana (the U.S.)

Special note about the deadline (締め切り)
I know that in our class today, I had said that we would do these presentations on July 24th.

I have made a mistake. I have found out that in fact our last day of class is July 17th. This is my fault and I am very sorry about my mistake. So, this means that our presentation day will be on July 17th (7/17), so you have two (2) weeks to prepare them.

I am very sorry once again about my mistake on this. I will give some extra points towards all of your final grades for my mistake.

Guidelines

You have a choice between doing a poster presentation or Power Point show. 

You will also write a summary (要約) about the presentation topic. You will hand this in on the day of the presentations.

Here are the board notes for our class on 7/3: 

Good luck! I look forward to our final presentation day on July 17th! 

See you next week!

Image: Top - by Angie from Sawara, Chiba-ken, Japan - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=639426/Bottom - by (WT-en) Bobo12345 at English Wikivoyage - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23702671